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How to Build Your Job-Search Confidence
Practice feeding your confidence during challenging times.
So what to do? Here are several ideas to help you feed your confidence in challenging times:
Look in the archives
When your confidence starts to ebb in your job search, it's probably not about reality. It's about the lens through which you're looking at reality. That lens is a little bit like looking through a telescope the wrong way, creating a narrowly focused tunnel vision. That tunnel vision focuses on the current facts, rather than the whole picture. And those current facts (I haven't found a job, and I've been trying for X amount of time) can spiral into a projected story (I can't find a job, so maybe there's something wrong with me).
[See 21 Secrets to Getting the Job.]
One way to expand your perspective to a more whole-picture view is to dig into the archives. The tunnel vision typically only lets you see what's not working, not what gifts, skills, and abilities you have to offer. So shift your focus from the present to the past and start to explore your successes, the things you have done well, things that people have praised your for, etc. Start a laundry list of examples that counter that voice of self-doubt that erodes your confidence.
But don't just write them down and forget them. Focus on them. Relive the experiences. Use each of them as a starting point to explore why you were so good at that. The more real you can make them for yourself, the better they will counter that self-doubt.
Seek out reinforcement
One way to make the positive story about yourself more real is to get out of your own brain and ask others. Reach out to people you have worked with in the past and people who know you well. Tell them that you are reaching back into the archives to look at what you do well, and ask them for their perspective. Ask them what stands out to them. See if they have specific examples that come to mind.
The more external reinforcement you can get, the easier it is to override that internal critic and the self-doubt it feeds.
[See Feeling Stuck in Your Career? Tips to Keep Moving.]
Keep it current
Many years ago before I discovered my Passion Catalyst work, I wound up in a protracted job search with no end in sight. I didn't realize it at the time, but my confidence in my abilities had started to erode. At one point I volunteered to do a project using my professional skills (at the time I was a marketing guy) for a non-profit. As I dived into it, the professional muscle-memory came flooding back. "Oh yeah! I'm actually really good at this, aren't I?"
When you don't use your skills for an extended period of time, your memory of them starts to atrophy. Finding ways to keep using them, whether you're paid for it or not, can help keep the self-doubt at bay.
Shift your attention
There's nothing like ruminating on what's wrong to plunge you further into the abyss. So don't. Instead, make a conscious effort to focus on the positive. Start a gratitude journal (you can use these 15 questions to prompt your exploration). If you like the idea and want to expand it, try writing a positive journal.
Go on a news fast. You don't need the non-stop flow of toxicity into your brain. Read uplifting and inspiring books. Watch inspiring movies. Ask friends and colleagues what they feel good about. Make a habit of looking for positive things to notice as you go through your days.
Identify opportunities to improve
Are you still breathing? Assuming the answer is yes, then you still have areas you could improve. Maybe that's in the arena of personal development. Or maybe it has to do with building and refining your professional skills. If you want to overcome the stasis and stagnancy that feed self-doubt, find ways to keep learning and growing. Do it actively. You might even go so far as to create a curriculum for yourself, complete with books to read, people to interview, talks to attend, and steps to take.
[See How Positivity Opens Doors in Your Career.]
When the chips are down, it can be tempting to spiral down into a self-reinforcing negative loop. One way to break that cycle and the tension it creates is to simply stop and breathe. Take a few minutes to just focus on your breath as it goes in and out of your lungs. Use the opportunity to focus completely on the present. Not what you should have done in the past. Not what it will mean about the future if you don't find a job soon. Give your mind a break and let it rest. Make it a habit to stop and take breath breaks throughout your day.
None of these ideas will magically wipe away the self-doubt that can crop up in the job search. But they will do two things. First, they will reduce that self-doubt. If that's even only by a fraction, it's still better than it was. And second, they help ensure that you're not feeding your self-doubt's future growth. The less you feed it now, the less you will have to grapple with it in the future.
After years as a professional malcontent, Curt Rosengren discovered the power of passion. As speaker, author, and coach, Rosengren helps people create careers that energize and inspire them. His book, 101 Ways to Get Wild About, and his E-book, The Occupational Adventure Guide, offer people tools for turning dreams into reality. Rosengren's blog, The M.A.P. Maker, explores how to craft a life of meaning, abundance, and passion.


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You'll see this description come up a lot when people talk about Grim Grimoire, "It's like a Harry Potter RTS." And fair enough that can be said about this game. But to say something like that also gives the impression that it can be swept under the rug and forgotten. That really is not the case with Grim Grimoire, the new RTS game from NIS. A joint venture with developer Vanilla Soft, Grim Grimoire is not the type of game one would expect to be on the PS2, let alone be done well. We've got a build that offers a healthy portion of the game and beyond the interesting story and well managed controls; its beautiful graphics will attest this is not a game that can simply be ignored.
First off I have to talk about the story. From the little time we got to spend with the game, we made it through the first chapter of the game. It starts with our heroine, Lillet Blan going to the Silver Star tower, a school for talented young children where they are taught magic by the myriad of interesting teachers. Though not all is well in the Silver Star, as within five days of her arrival the soul of an evil arch mage is resurrected and kills everyone in the tower. Just as our heroine is to meet her early demise, she awakens and finds that she's back at the night she arrived, with all the memories of the past five days intact. From here it looks to become a "who-dunnit" type story and considering how interesting yet bizarre each teacher is, there is definitely something wacky going on.
Like I said before this game looks amazing. So long as people keep making games like this, 2-D will never die, and I really hope it doesn't because this game looks so good. The character portraits have more frames of animation in one scene than most games have for their entire story. Characters breathe and have their own quirks so it doesn't feel canned at all and gives the game quite a range of personality. Once you get in to battles you see where this game really shines. A large number of massive sprites populate the battle field and aside from a little bit of slowdown when the screen is crowded it looks fantastic.
What really surprised me about this game is how accessible it is. The controls for RTS games on consoles in the past have been less than stellar shall we say. Though the last RTS I recall being on a console was Starcraft 64 so it could be that I am just ridiculously out of touch. Back to Grim Grimoire, it is surprisingly simple to pick up and play. Square is used to select a unit or object, and L1 and R1 are used to select the different options available to you, another click of the square button and your unit is off to its task. Or let's say you've got a cluster of one type of unit and you want to move them all. Press Up on the d-pad with one of those units highlighted and all the units in view will come to life to follow your orders. It's something that you need to try to believe, I myself was astounded at how easy it is to pick up and play this game in such a short time.
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"A lot of the instruments are the
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For several decades after the Second
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As the war was winding down Sir Geoffrey de Havilland was looking for a
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Wsiewolod Jakimiuk, a Polish engineer who managed to escape the German
invasion of his native country.
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seater with the distinctive de Havilland tail.
Power comes from a four-cylinder Gypsy
Major 10 engine. Plants in Canada, Great Britain and Portugal produced
nearly 1,300 copies of the design.
Stottlemyer's Chipmunk is a 1952
British-made model. It served with two different British training
squadrons before being shipped for training service with the Ghana air
Although the Ghanaian markings on the
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scheme, he returned the craft to its original British livery.
The balance of the plane is very
"The interior is exactly as it
was," Stottlemyer said. "The only thing I have put in is a
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According to Stottlemyer, support for the planes is remarkable for such
an old type.
"BAE Systems has a small subsidiary
called the de Havilland Support Group," he said. "It is based
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Technical New Sheets.
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manufacturer's representative for these airplanes and they are wonderful
people to work with.
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things flying and flying safely. We are lucky to have that kind of
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Even though the airplane is a simple
design with not too much to fail, finding parts is not a large challenge
for a Chipmunk owner.
"Parts are not as plentiful as for
some of the American types," Stottlemyer said, "but there is a
worldwide network if you need to find them."
When asked about how much he gets to fly
his classic trainer, Stottlemyer said just as often as time and money
allow. "There's just so much history in these things."


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The Miami Heat predictably rolled over the Los Angeles Lakers by 10 points Sunday afternoon, in a picture-perfect contrast about the finicky nature of the NBA's Dream Team concept.
The Heat have a dynasty brewing. The Lakers only seem to revel in dysfunction.
The differences between what's happening on the East Coast and the West Coast prove that establishing world dominance isn't as simple as putting together a fantasy team of stars, rolling out the basketballs, and getting everybody sized for rings.
It's also a tribute to LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and the Heat collective. They have managed to take all those large egos and make the complex chemistry work.
The Lakers, not so much.
Fifty-two games into the season, the Lakers are into their second coach and about 41st locker room spat. It's a case of dueling divas — Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard. Kobe is high-maintenance, but he also has five NBA titles to prove he's worth the occasional pampering. Dwight is also high-maintenance, but has zero rings, and a reputation that continues to deteriorate every day.
In the latest twist, his father told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution that the Lakers' dysfunctional spats start with coach Mike D'Antoni. "The problem is the coach," Dwight Howard Sr. said. "[D'Antoni] needs to step in and say, 'You guys have got to be quiet. We're trying to secure something here. Dwight is probably looking at the coach, thinking, 'What are you going to do?' I think the coach has a lot to do with who controls Kobe's mouth right now."
Roll of the eyes, everybody.
"You can't come to your son's rescue," NBA great and now ABC analyst Magic Johnson said before Sunday's game. "Dwight Howard has to handle that problem."
Those of us who witnessed Howard's shenanigans in Orlando last season would suggest he doesn't have the stomach for conflict. He's too busy worrying about what people think of him. Bryant doesn't give a hoot. He simply wants to win.
Instead of having Daddy Dearest handle some of the problems, Howard should simply ask LeBron James how to make the transition from NBA villain to revered superstar. It took James a few years to cross that threshold. Perhaps there is still time for Howard to sort it out.
But LeBron had this going for him: Even though the rest of the world reveled in the sniper fire when the James Gang first got together, they always had each other's back. The Lakers suffer from self-inflicted stab wounds. We saw that Sunday when Howard and point guard Steve Nash had some words after Nash failed to deliver the ball inside to Howard on a second-half possession.
But this isn't all on Dwight. The Lakers sometime forget they have the best center in the game. How does Earl Clark take 17 shots and Dwight only nine against the Heat?
"Miami got it when they came together," NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy said during the telecast. "They understood that. LA is still trying to find its way to voluntary cooperation."
Most of the world has gotten over Prom King envy when it comes to the Heat. It was once easy to hate the Heat, with all those pretty boys posturing about how hip they were while predicting world domination. It didn't quite work out that way, as the Dallas Mavericks prevailed in Miami's first run at a ring with The Big Three.
Now they have one, and the odds are they will add to that collection.
The Lakers? Who knows? They need to make a push for the eighth and final spot in the playoffs. Think about that for a sec.
"Whatever sacrifice you have to make to best suit the group is the only choice," Nash said, addressing the ego issue.
The Lakers need some answers, and quickly. I don't think a PTA meeting with Dwight's dad and the rest of the elders is going to force everybody to play nice.
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The Dissertation Fellowships Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. The Foundation believes that insight from many research traditions can contribute to an understanding of education as a fundamental human endeavor and advance our ability to address significant current issues in education. Therefore, the Spencer Dissertation Fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world.
Funding Priorities. Although the dissertation topic must concern education, graduate study may be in any academic discipline or professional field. Inthe past, fellowships have been awarded to candidates in anthropology, architecture, art history, economics, education, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political science, public health, psychology, religion, and sociology, but eligibility is not restricted to these academic areas. Candidates should be interested in pursuing further research in education once the doctorate is attained.
Applicants must be candidates for the doctoral degree in any field of study at a graduate school in the United States; however, applicants need not be citizens of the United States. These fellowships are not intended to
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Approximately 30 non-renewable fellowships will be awarded. Recipients of the fellowships will receive $20,000 to support completion of the dissertation. This amount must be expended within a time limit of two years and in accordance with the work plan provided by the candidate in the application. Fellows may not accept employment other than as described (if any) in the application nor may they accept other awards
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Completed applications and supporting materials must be postmarked by October 20, 1999.
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What a weekend! First spyshots of the new M3, then had the first leak of the Performance Concept 1-series and now this:
An eagle eyed tipster managed to take the first (albeit blurry) shots of the new BMW 3-series sedan (F30). From what can be seen in those photos it will be a very handsome and evolutionary design. The front appears sporty yet elegant and — to the relief of many — the headlights are sleeker and smaller compared to the F20 1-series. The rear clearly shows a family resemblance to the F10 5-series, yet the rearlights are somewhat different at the outer edges to make for a unique look.
As with the F20, the side turn indicators are now integrated into the mirros. There appears to … CONTINUED
As the E90 3-series' production comes to an end this October, attention has already been shifting to the next generation F30 3-series sedan. Here, BMW continues testing of the next generation 3-series (F30) sedan. It seems that the amount of camouflage has remained at this level for a while now, but new colors continue to appear on the FEP prototypes.
The F30 3 series spied here looks to be in Deep Sea Blue Metallic or the new Midnight Blue color introduced on the F20 1-series hatchback. This new wheel design has been spotted multiple times on F30 prototypes, so we expect it to be the premium 19″ wheel option.
F30 begins production in November 2011. The 2012 Model Year will run until June 2012, upon which point it … CONTINUED
The recently-spied-for-first-time F3x 3-series Li Long wheelbase model continues its testing. This extended length next gen 3-series will be manufactured in China for sale only in China (like all new F30s for the Chinese market) and provides for more spacious backseat area with more legroom. The BMW 3-series Li will debut at the Beijing Autoshow in April 2012.
The platform will form the basis of the BMW 3-series Gran Turismo which debuts in 2013.
The F30 3-series is shaping up to the be safest 3-series yet. From the latest set of F30 spy photos, we have now spotted side view cameras, which will likely be part of a camera package which also includes top and rear view parking cameras. From previous interior spy photos we've also spotted the lane change warning system. All will combine to provide safety features which have never before been seen in the 3-series!
We've posted plenty of F30 spy photos and videos, but this is a first — a F30 335i with blue front brake calipers. Despite their color, the brakes on this prototype don't appear to be larger or a special design compared to other F30 335i prototypes, so it could be cosmetic only (perhaps as part of a special package). BMW does seem to have an affinity for blue brakes recently, as seen on the F10 M5. Or, these brakes could be for testing purposes only.
Also seen are some testing/recording equipment attached to each fender to monitor the brakes, wheels, and/or tires, as well as sensors on the calipers. The fender sensors appear to be microphones, so they may be for sound testing.
Seen clearly for the first … CONTINUED
First pictures of the Chinese Market BMW 3er Li. Like the BMW 5-series, the new BMW 3-series for the Chinese market will inherit an extended wheelbase model. Extra length in the rear will be a boon to Chinese customers in this segment where the car will face off with the Audi A4L. With BMW adding a 3-series Li, expect Mercedes-Benz to add a C-Klasse L when the next generation arrives.
Like all new F30′s for the Chinese market The 3erLi will be manufactured in China.
Whilst Europe and the US will not see the 3erLi , The platform will form the basis of the BMW 3er Gran Turismo which debuts in 2013. The 3er GT will benefit from the extended wheelbase for rear passengers.
The BMW 3er … CONTINUED
More photos of the 2012 335i from a recent testing session at the Nurburgring. The new photos continue to showcase the F30′s excellent stance and proportions, especially as it hunkers down around the turns.
The F30 3-series sedan will begin production in November 2011, shortly after the E90 3-series stops production. The F30 2012 Model Year will run until June 2012, upon which point it will switch to the 2013 Model Year.
F30 sales are expected to begin in Europe around the time of its world public premiere at the 2011 Geneva show – in March, 2012. US sales should begin in late Spring of 2012. Usually, production starts just two or three months prior to market launch, but we assume BMW will use … CONTINUED
FEP F30 3-series prototypes are now running abound throughout Germany. This is the first sighting of a titanium silver F30 which was seen cruising on the Autobahn. As always, the F30 is looking great in motion and out in a real world environment with its great proportions and stance, short overhangs, and large wheels which fit the car's size nicely.
The F30 3-series sedan will be revealed for the first time in the Fall and the first models introduced will be 328i and 335i models. They will begin production in November, shortly after the E90 3-series stops production in October. The F30 2012 Model Year will run until June 2012, upon which point it will switch to the 2013 Model Year.
F30 sales are expected to begin in … CONTINUED
BMW's research and development head, Klaus Draeger, has confirmed that future BMWs will indeed utilize new turbocharged 3-cylinder gas and diesel engines. This begs the question which future models will receive these 3 cylinder motors. According to Draeger (via Autocar), the upcoming FWD 1-series models will receive the 1.5L turbo 3-cylinder and not the F30 3-series (at least not initially?)
"They are not a priority for the 3-series," Draeger told Autocar last week. "We'll start with the front-wheel drive architecture and more price-sensitive models."
Instead, the smallest engine we expect to see for the F30 3-series is the 245hp 2.0L turbo 4-cylinder N20 engine.
Draeger revealed that the petrol version of the engine, known internally as N37, has the potential to match the maximum 54bhp-per-cylinder rating of the firm's … CONTINUED


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Texas Reps. Joaquin Castro and Pete Gallego on Wednesday announced that the U.S. Air Force has chosen San Antonio for the site its soon-to-be-relocated training school.
In a statement provided by the offices of Castro and Gallego, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland will host the relocation of the Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) and the Air Liaison Officer (ALO) training school.
The Air Force will finalize its decisions in the fall, pending an environmental impact study. The training school is projected to be fully operational by November of 2014.
According to the statement, TACP and ALO trainees go through a nearly 30-week training course that includes combat survival skills and special tactics.


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- Storyboard Directors: Jerry Eisenberg, Bob Fuentes, Bob Dranko, Roy Allen Smith, Debra L. Pugh, Frank Paur, Doug Vandegrift.
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They are common in other parts of the world. They don't take as many long hot showers or fill whirlpools anywhere as often, either .
Often, in order to ensure it can raise the temp, they install a flow restrictor. The water can't go through the thing "too fast", or it doesn't have enough time to heat, thus the restrictor. While they don't take much of any power while idle (maybe a few watts in standby), they take significant energy when running. If electric, expect to possibly have to upgrade your service (maybe not, but don't be surprised). If gas, you'll want to probably direct vent it to the outside for intake and exhaust, or you will need a quite large area to ensure you have enough combustion air.
If you live where the incoming source water is below 50 degrees (how most of them are spec'ed for output), then it may not reach the desired temperature and volume. Last winter, my incoming water was in the low 30's, yours could easily differ significantly. If the anticipated use is within the units capabilities, it will probably work out. Just make sure you read and understand the specs and know what you really need it to do. Take into account the quantity of fixtures you anticipate running at any one time, and either live with the flow, or buy a bigger one, or accept that the water doesn't get as hot.


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they will be 1500 in australia at least.. we get ripped off something fierce.. ps3 slim 320 gig console just dropped to 300 last week.. LOL
Would love to get one but it way too small for that price.
I would want a minimum 32" for that price.
I agree that for $500 (which will translate to �500 here in UK) is a lot for a 24" TV. But then I think about how it is 3D and that's very cheap here - most 32" 3D TV's still cost �1000+!
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A new toy arrived at my doorstep yesterday and today I put it to use. I got a new Garmin SWIM watch to track and log my swim workouts. It is much like any other Garmin that supports a .FIT file and I was successful in uploading it to RA. The watch keeps track of swim intervals and rest intervals. When I uploaded the data, both the swim and rest sets were set to the "Interval" type and the total time included both sets. Would it be possible for your importer to mark any set that doesn't have a distance (resting time does not include a distance at import) to the "rest" type? Then we could have the option of including rest sets in the total workout time or leave them out without having to edit ever one manually.
The pain that hurts the worse is the imagined pain. One of the most difficult arts of racing is learning to ignore the imagined pain and just live with the present pain (which is always bearable.) - Jeff
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A circuit program that incorporates equipment such as: sleds, prowlers and tires, to encourage a high intensity motivational workout. This class is geared to improve muscular and endurance fitness.
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An invigorating jumble of country soul and asides from Laos and Thailand, drawn from 70s and 80s LPs, 45s and cassettes, mixing electric guitars and organs with traditional instruments like the khaen and the phin.
Mo meaning master, lam meaning song 'molam' translates literally as 'master singer', but operates more as an umbrella-term covering more than a dozen lam styles, in which male and female singers may be backed by a free-reed bamboo mouth organ called a khaen, indigenous lute-like instruments (the phin or the soong), a bowed fiddle called a sor and a percussion ensemble featuring finger cymbals and hand drums.
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Congratulations to Chirapaq Director Tarcila Rivera Zea!
For its 75th anniversary, the Ford Foundation has created the Visionaries Awards to acknowledge 12 extraordinary leaders around the world.
The work of these leaders demonstrates "innovative efforts on the frontlines of key social issues, offer[ing] clear and concrete pathways to improved economic opportunities and expanded political and social participation for millions of marginalized people worldwide. "
We are proud to announce the recognition of Tarcila Rivera Zea, Executive Director of Chirapaq, as Visionary Award winner for "lifting the voices of indigenous people." For 25 years, Chirapaq – The Hunger Project's partner organization in Peru – has played a key role in the historic reclamation of the identity of indigenous people in Peru and across Latin America. Join us in congratulating Tarcila and her team on their amazing work!
Read more about Tarcila's work with the Ford Foundation and meet the other Visionary Award recipients here.
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Benton police have arrested four people in connection to Wednesday's West Side burglary and recovered more than $1.3 million in pharmaceutical medication on nine different properties throughout Benton, Malvern, Hot Springs and Bismarck.
Lt. Kevin Russell said the arrests were made in conjunction with with seven law enforcement agencies and the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy.
Employees of Westside Pharmacy found their business had been burglarized early Wednesday.
Lt. Kevin Russell, public information officer for the Benton Police Department, said officers found that the suspects used forcible entry to gain access to the pharmacy. Details on how the burglars broke into the building was not released as of press time, but Russell said "details will be forthcoming on this incident."
Two Benton men were arrested on Monday for allegedly stealing from a home while in the view of officers.
Lt. Kevin Russell, public information officer for the Benton Police Department, said at 12:15 a.m. officers drove to the 1400 block of Arkansas 35 South to check out a report of a suspicious vehicle in the area. What officers found was a truck backed up to a shop and two men loading items into the bed of the truck, Russell said.
Being recognized as a national leader is becoming a habit at Everett Buick GMC.
For the third consecutive year, the family-owned business has been named the top GM dealership in the United States for 2012. More than 3,100 vehicles were purchased at Everett's in 2012, up from 2,665 in 2011.
"If someone would have told me six years ago this would happen three years straight, I wouldn't have believed them," said owner Dwight Everett.
"We could not have accomplished what we have here without the support of the community and the partnership we have with GM," co-owner Susie Everett added.
The Saline County Sheriff's Office has confirmed the identity of a dead body found off River Road on Sunday as 19-year-old Gregory Tyrone Pikes of Benton.
As of press time, no person(s) of interest have been named by authorities. The manner in which Pikes was killed was also not released as of press time.
There are many things a boy could ask for on his eighth birthday.
Store shelves these days are packed with the newest bigger, better toys and gaming systems. Kids are tempted by commercials that feature toys and games that do amazing things – not to mention the appeal to ask their parents for the latest electronic equipment. The age that children request their own computer and cell phone is getting younger every year.
"Everyone kept asking me what to get Cameron for his birthday. I told them I didn't know, but I would find out," said Lori Terrell about her son.
Cameron, a sixth-grader at Benton Middle School, had not been helpful with clues of any kind. "I really couldn't think of anything I wanted," said Cameron. "I thought I had too much stuff already."
Then, on the way to school one morning, Cameron made a decision. "I know what I want," he said to his mother. "I want a pair of shoes so I can give them to someone who needs them."
Each fall the Veterans of Foreign Wars Raymond McGill Post 2256 and the Ladies Auxiliary of Benton provide an opportunity for Saline County students to express their views on patriotism and democracy and earn monetary awards through the Patriot's Pen essay contest.
This year's theme, "What Would I Tell Our Founding Fathers?," drew more than 220 contestants from local middle and junior high school students.
A former Alexander police officer facing a charge of manslaughter was given a new court date and a $10,000 signature bond after appearing in Benton District Court on Friday.
It was revealed that 47-year-old Nancy Cummings believes an attorney from the Arkansas Municipal League may represent her in court. However, she said no arrangement has been made at this point.
It was also revealed that Cummings was taken into custody during a training session at the Black River Technical College Law Enforcement Academy in Pocahontas.
An Alexander police officer has been arrested and charged with manslaughter, Saline County Prosecuting Attorney Ken Casady said.
Nancy Cummings is expected to make her first appearance in Benton District Court at 10 a.m. Friday. The arrest stems from the Sept. 8, 2012 shooting death of then 30-year-old Carleton Wallace of Bryant. Cummings claimed that she noticed Wallace walking along Brookwood St. with a pistol tucked into the waistband of his pants.


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String trimming and edging, two common tasks generally linked with mowing, are not difficult tasks. But there are a lot of ways trimming can be made less efficient - from abusing the string trimmers, making them more prone to breakdowns and failure, to not carrying common repair and replacement parts.
Before landscape companies even get onto properties, owners have to figure out which lawn equipment products work best for their operations and the properties they maintain. They're faced with a lot of choices in selecting professional-quality trimmers and edgers. For example, split-shaft machines can take attachments. Is that important to the jobs they do? Do two-cycle or four-cycle units work best for their jobs? Today's gas-powered, hand-held units are quieter and more fuel-efficient. For truly quiet operation, users can now find portable and relatively powerful electric trimmers.
Edging along walkways, driveways and other hardscapes gives landscapes a finished appearance.
For trimmers, the choice ultimately depends upon the size of the properties they maintain and what they'll be trimming. Mostly grass? Tough weeds? Equipment users should have some say in the product selection, as well. Users may find some units more comfortable, more reliable or easier to service than others. Workers will perform better with equipment that they find easiest to use. Trimmers are available with boom shafts, straight shafts, curved shafts and shafts with handlebars and shoulder harnesses. Each design has unique performance characteristics, those with handlebars and shoulder harnesses are designed to reduce strain on workers' backs.
There are more differences. Trimmers come with different head types: refillable spool and fixed-line being the most common. In some models you can replace the line with a metal cutting blade for really overgrown areas.
Taking a little extra time to find the best models for your particular needs is time well spent. Test out the models at J&J Small Engine Clinic. The unit's weight should feel evenly distributed or a bit heavier toward the top handle. Are the control buttons in a handy place? Do you need a model with a protective sleeve around the shaft? It's a good idea if your guys are going to be cutting a lot of weeds or tall grass.
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When Noach is named, his father Lamech claims that he will provide relief for humankind - and less than 10 verses later, God decides to destroy the world. By comparing textual parallels of the two events, Rabbi Fohrman helps us understand Lamech's mistake, and how to better relate to God today.
Parshat Noach
Hi everybody, this is Rabbi David Fohrman and welcome to Parshat Noach.
Today I want to talk to you about Noach's name. The torah actually talks to us about Noach's name and tells us how it is exactly that he got it. It turns out that Noach's father, Lamech, made a declaration upon the birth of Noach and there's something very, very puzzling, very chilling about that declaration. Let me read it to you.
"Vayikra et-shmo Noach", and he called the name of his child, Noach, "le'emor," saying, "zeh y'nachamenu mima'asenu u'me-itzvon yadeinu min-ha-adamah asher er'ra HaShem." This one shall comfort us from our deeds and from the sadness of our hands from the land that God cursed. Somehow Lamech senses that this child is going to comfort him, not just comfort him, but comfort all of us, comfort mankind from the curse of the land.
What's the curse of the land and the curse of the land goes back to the earlier stories in the torah, the stories of the tree of knowledge, the stories of Cain and Abel where the land became cursed. There were consequences to eating from the tree of knowledge and those consequences to Cain's killing of Abel andthose consequences express themselves in two main ways. One of them was an alienation from God.
Adam and Eve hide from God immediately after eating from the tree, Cain senses that he will spend his life continually hiding from God and similarly not just an alienation from God but an alienation from land. Adam is told "b'ze'at apecha tochel lechem," 'by the sweat of your brow, you will work the land,' "b-itzavon tochalena kol yamei chayecha,"—in sadness and toil will you work on the land all the days. It won't just provide for you, you'll have to work on it, and that curse also intensifies itself in the times ofCain. Cainis told that even if he works the land, it's not going to help, "lo tosef tet-kocha lach," it won't continue to give you its bounty.
And now generations later, Lamech comes and senses that things could be different now. "zeh y'nachamenu mima'asenu u'me-itzvon yadeinu." This one will comfort us from the sadness of our hands, from the land that God has cursed.
So it all sounds very nice, sounds very hopeful but here's the chilling part. If you fast-forward not 6 verses ahead, you get to the verses that describe God's decision to bring the flood, God's decision to destroy the world because Lamech lives in the generation which is right before the flood. Now listen to God's decision to destroy the world as described by the Torah. Chapter six, verse six: "V'yenachem HaShem," and God regretted "ki asah et ha-adam b'aretz," that he had created the men in the land "vayitatzev el-libo," and he was saddened to his heart.
And then God said "emche et ha-adam asher barati me-al pnei ha-adamah." I will wipe out man that I have created from the face of the earth. Now if you pay careful attention to the words here, you will find a very fascinating, but very chilling thing, which is that God's declaration in creating the world exactly echoes Lamech's declaration upon the birth of Noach.
These are the words to look forward, go back to Lamech's declaration, "zeh yenachamenu," word number one, "yenachem," comfort or regret. It has both meanings. "Mi'ma'asenu": this one will comfort us 'mi-ma'asenu,'from our deeds. Word number two, deeds. "Me-itzvon," word number three, sadness. Word number four, "min-ha-adamah."
"Zeh ynachamenu mima'asenu u'me-itzvon yadeinu min-ha-adamah asher er'ra HaShem," that this one will comfort us from the sadness of our hands, from the earth that God has created. But if you take those four words—y'nachem, mi-ma'asenu, me-itzvon, adamah—you will find them repeated in the exact same order in God's decision to destroy the world. "Vay'nachem Hashem," and there's word number one: and God regretted, but it's the same word for comfort, going back to the declaration of Lamech. "Ki asah." There's word number two, that he had made man and the land, "v'yitatzev el-libo" and he became saddened. There's itzavon, sadness, word number three. And then, as if on queue, God says, 'I will wipe out man "me'al pnei ha-adamah" from the face of the adamah, there was word number four.
It's impossible to resist the conclusion that for some strange reason God is mimicking Lamech when he decides to destroy the world. The declaration for destroying the world has, as its prototype, the naming speech that Lamech gave for Noach. Now why would that be?
So I want to propose a theory to you. It comes from Rashi. Rashi makes very a very innocent little comment in describing Lamech's declaration. Lamech said that this one, Noach, will comfort us. That's why he is named Noach, from the word 'yenachem,' to comfort. This one will comfort us. Comfort for the curses of the land. How would Noach comfort mankind from the curse that god had placed upon the land?
The sages of the Midrashsaid, that Lamech saw prophetically that Noach would be the creator of the plow. The plow would be a form of comfort. We wouldn't have to deal with the curse of the land anymore. I want to suggest that that was the straw that broke the camel's back. That comfort, the declaration of the plow, in the world before the flood, for the reasons of comfort…and not just the creation of the plow but the significance that mankind attached to the plow—the plow would comfort us—is the reason to destroy the world. Why?
The answer is because the plow can never comfort you.
But what is comfort all about? When do we achieve comfort? How do we achieve comfort? When we are wracked by a terrible loss, how do we get comfort from a loss? Comfort involves a kind of change in the perspective. There is a kind of mourning which you can't get comfort for, which is called "aninut": terrible pain, searing grief, before burial. But after burial, there's new kind of mourning, and it's called "avelut" alef-bet-lamed, it's the same word as "aval": 'but.' Because, a colleague of mine once said, and "avel," a mourner, asks himself a question but the question has no answer and the question is: how could have happened? Why did this happen? And the only thing that the 'avel'can do, ultimately, is say 'but it happened.' It happened anyway and 'avelut' is the stage of but-ness, of nevertheless-ness: and it happened and I must deal with it. It's a change in perspective, it's a willingness to accommodate the uncomfortable reality.
"Zeh y'nachamenu mi-ma'asenu," Lamech said: 'this one will comfort us, he is going to create the plow that will allow us to live, to accommodate ourselves to an uncomfortable reality."
What were the purposes of the curses? The curse of the land, the sadness of the land, why was it so sad to toil on the land, such that the language for the curse should be "b'itzavon tochalena kol yamei chayecha":that you will work the land by the sweat of your brow and you will eat in sadness.
What's so sad about work? The answer is when work is just work, it's not sad but when work is toil, when work could have gone easier, but it goes harder, then it's sad. There's a futility involved and then the sadness is a reminder that things could be different. The curses in the wake of the tree of knowledge, in the wake of the murder of Abel were curses that alienated us from land, and they alienated us from God. We hid from God, and when we work the land, it would no longer give its power to us. It would be sad and we would toil.
Land and God. There's a fascinating comment that the Ramban makes, the Ramban says that when God said, "na'ase adam b'tzalmenu k'dmutenu,"—"let us make man,"—the 'us' was because God was speaking to the land. God said to the land, 'you contribute the body and I will contribute the soul, we together shall make man.' So land and God stand as man's creators but we become alienated from our creators, land and God, in the wake of the tree of knowledge, and that alienation grows after Cain and Abel and it grows and it grows and when will it stop and what was the point of that alienation?
Why make curses that alienate men from God? God doesn't want us to be alienated. The answer is, there is a homing beacon. A homing beacon we all have to come back to our creator. We were once one with our creator. We always want to come back, we never want to be separate, and the more you become alienated, the stronger the homing beacon becomes. The stronger you want to come back and that's the point of the curses. The curses are, understand the consequence of the sins, understand how alienated we have become, and desire to come back, feel the sadness, the toil, and return.
When would God say that the time has come to give up, to just destroy the world? It comes when you find comfort in all the wrong places. It comes when you find comfort in the plow. The plow is a technological solution to a spiritual problem. It is a way of taking Tylenol so that you don't feel sadness anymore. We can work the land with the plow, we can accommodate ourselves to this uncomfortable reality, we don't have to deal with the alienation anymore, we can inure ourselves to it. And it's at that moment that God says, 'you say that you will comfort yourselves with the creation of the plow? You are giving up on the relationship, there's no way that you will ever come back.
'I have no choice but to start all over again' and God uses the exact same language that mankind used to comfort themselves with the plow, to start all over again with a watery end to the previous world and the hope for a better one, in a recreated world with a new slate, and a new relationship with the children of mankind.
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Lincoln Had One. So Did Uncle Sam.
Why don't politicians today grow beards?
Though the gentlemen who vied for the Republican presidential nomination disagreed on many things, from tax policy to contraception to the feasibility of establishing a colony on the moon, there's one critical issue on which they were firmly in accord: facial hair. This was true of the eventual nominees in the last election, and the one before that, and in every other presidential contest going back to 1916. One hundred years ago, two of the four men running for president were proudly hirsute, as were two of the four vice-presidential candidates. Today, the sitting president can't grow whiskers and his challengers wouldn't dare try. When did the beard lose its political prestige?
In his delightful 1930 monograph Concerning Beards, Edwin Valentine Mitchell notes that "the fortunes of the beard have always fluctuated through the ages. It flourishes for a time in full splendor, then diminishes in size, and finally disappears altogether, only to burst forth once more in all its former glory." In much of the premodern era, a healthy beard connoted influence and high status; Mitchell says that "one ancient king actually made a terrible scene because the reigning head of another state sent a beardless youth upon a political errand to his court." The opposite is true, too: Men pressed into servitude were often shorn of their beards as a sign of subjugation.
By the time of the Revolutionary War, facial hair had gone out of style in America, explains Victoria Sherrow in her Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History. And, indeed, the first 15 U.S. presidents were beardless, though John Quincy Adams did sport a rather nice pair of muttonchops. A sign of the times: In 1830, a man named Joseph Palmer was jailed for a year in Fitchburg, Mass., after fending off four men who attempted to forcibly rid him of his widely loathed beard. (Palmer's gravesite is marked with a monument that reads "Persecuted for Wearing the Beard.")
In the mid-1800s, whiskers made a comeback in American political life—or, as Reginald Reynolds put it in his odd 1950 volume, Beards, "a beard was becoming almost as necessary as a Bible to a rising demagogue." Abraham Lincoln began his presidency as a baby-faced rube from rural Illinois, governing a country on the brink of collapse. After growing a beard at the behest of a schoolgirl, he vanquished the South and passed into legend.
Every subsequent president up to William Howard Taft wore some sort of facial hair, except for Andrew Johnson, who was impeached, and William McKinley, who was assassinated. If you wanted the Republican Party's nomination, a beard was as necessary then as a Reagan fetish is now.
That changed in the early 1900s, likely due to the advent of the Gillette safety razor, which debuted in 1903 and eased the performance of what had long been a hated and bloody chore. Soon thereafter, the military banned beards, as they interfered with the seal on gas masks. By 1930, Edwin Valentine Mitchell would write that, "In this regimented age the simple possession of a beard is enough to mark as curious any young man who has the courage to grow one."
In politics, that's been the case ever since. No sitting president has worn facial hair since Taft. Charles Evans Hughes was the last bearded major-party presidential nominee; he lost to Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Today, it's received wisdom that candidates should be clean-shaven. "Except for a brief window from Sept. 11 to 2003-2004, most of the last 15 years in politics have been about change, and a wizened graybeard doesn't really convey change," says Jeff Jacobs, creative director and founder of NextGen Persuasion, a campaign consultancy firm. "In 500 campaigns I've almost never had a conversation with a candidate about whether or not to have facial hair," explains Democratic media consultant John Rowley. "It's almost like conventional wisdom about facial hair has already hit candidates before they even run."
The beard's absence from modern American politics can be partially blamed on the two scourges of the 20th century: Communists and hippies. For many years, wearing a full beard marked you as the sort of fellow who had Das Kapital stashed somewhere on his person. In the 1960s, the more-or-less concurrent rise of Fidel Castro in Cuba and student radicals at home reinforced the stereotype of beard-wearers as America-hating no-goodniks. The stigma persists to this day: No candidate wants to risk alienating elderly voters with a gratuitous resemblance to Wavy Gravy.
A few politicians have managed to win elective office in spite of their hairy visages. Moderate, beard-having Ohio Republican Steve LaTourette has been a House stalwart since 1995. Who liked Rep. David Obey's beard? The voters of Wisconsin's seventh district did: They elected its wearer to 21 consecutive terms before Obey retired in 2011. Sen. Tom Coburn sometimes wears a beard, and its occasional appearance is eagerly awaited by Hill types. Coburn's beard even has its own tribute Twitter account, which boots up whenever the senator's whiskers begin to sprout. (Sample tweet: "i've asked tom to spend a few minutes combing me before tonight's #SOTU, i must maintain my supple virility.")
But mostly, a list of contemporary bearded politicos is a roster of the inept and inessential. There's former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine, who's currently embroiled in a massive financial scandal. Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings was impeached and removed from office while serving as a federal judge in the 1980s. Ex-New York governor David Paterson's three-year tenure did much to improve the fortunes of Saturday Night Live. Cantankerous Alaska congressman Don Young, known as "Mr. Pork," has seemingly been ostracized from the beard community. ("Young is kind of a disgrace to beards around the world," wrote one member of a beard-centric message board). The oddly bearded jurist Robert Bork is the only person in the last 40 years to have his Supreme Court nomination rejected by the Senate. Ben Bernanke is the first beard-wearer to chair the Federal Reserve; he is currently one of the most-loathed men in America.